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Arched harp with a curving neck and large soundholes, made from two sticks [12] [13] shoulder harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11 Arched harp with a boat-shaped hollow body surrounded by a skin membrane, with ten soundholes and traversed and punctured by one or two sticks to which the string is attached; [5] [14] shovel harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. [1] An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961.
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.12 under that system. These instruments may be known as angular harps . 3 : Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings ( chordophones , string instruments ).
The first three Hornbostel Sachs numbers describe instruments that make sound from matter in its solid state. The fourth HS number describes instruments that make sound from matter in its gaseous state (air). The fifth HS number describes instruments that make sound from electricity and/or electrical energy.
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.212.1 under that system. These instruments are chromatic frame harps with strings in one plane. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).
Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description harp, Paraguayan [1] [2] [3]: Paraguay: 322.211 Diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40 strings, made from tropical wood and with songs in the Guarani language, with an exaggerated neck-arch, played with the fingernail
Musicians may add a resonator as is done with a bow harp; they can attach or put the instrument into a calabash gourd or a ceramic pot. [ 3 ] Under the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification, any frame with strings stretched across, and without a built in resonator, would count as a frame zither.
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 314.122 under that system (box zithers). These instruments are board zithers that use slats as resonators. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).